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Thomas Paine

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

Friday, May 25, 2012

25 May - Blogs I'm Following II

The bar chart presented on the National Debt Awareness Center home page is based on U.S. Senate Appropriations Bills and the Monthly Treasury Statement. The data was published by the U. S. Treasury Department into a spreadsheet and generate the bar chart from that spreadsheet. The "estimate bar" in the "Debt Total" box for the next Fiscal Year (FY) is generated by analysists from data published by the Congressional Budget Office and several other sources. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

FYI .. Elementary school teacher, 39, jailed for FORTY years for her affair with boy of 14 -- Coweta County, Georgia (17th February 2012) ... (Photo credit: marsmet526)

Diagram of US Federal Government and American Union. Published: 1862, July 15. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The massive post office deficit that is driving management to commit institutional suicide by ending six-day delivery, closing half of the nation's 30,000 or so post offices and half its 500 mail-processing centers, and laying off more than 200,000 workers, is make-believe.

......this all began because the post office discovered it had surplus funds. Unified budget accounting made sure it could never tap into this surplus unless at the same time it assumed new liabilities of an equal magnitude.The solution to the post office financial deficit is simple. Give it back the money, Congress, as a result of pressure from the CBO, has stolen from it over the past years.

The postal crisis is contrived.

BERLIN - At least 20,000 people held a major rally of the local Occupy movement in Frankfurt on Saturday to decry austerity measures affecting much of Europe, the dominance of banks, and what they call untamed capitalism.

"The German police took off their helmets and marched with the protest clearing the way for them."

Public Safety Minister Vic Toews still intends to ram his unpopular warrantless online spying bill through Parliament. But thanks to you, the video we launched to push back is starting to go viral, with 10,000+ views yesterday alone. Watch it athttp://openmedia.ca/standand use this link to share it on Facebook:http://on.fb.me/KfQz8N

The more we share and educate those around us, the louder our voices will be in Parliament.

DID YOU KNOW…that caffeine can help lessen sugar addiction? Caffeine is an opioid receptor antagonist – it binds with opioid receptors and prevents you from being addicted to sugar. When you drink coffee, only drink dark, organic coffee without any sugar or artificial sweeteners.

Mongabay.com launches forest web site in Indonesian

Mongabay.com is pleased to announce the launch of Mongabay-Indonesia (mongabay.co.id), an environmental news web site published in Indonesian. The site was officially unveiled Saturday, May 19 at an event in Jakarta.

Mongabay-Indonesia is run independently of mongabay.com by a team of Indonesians based in three cities on the island of Java. The site will soon begin to build out a network of up to 50 corespondents across Indonesia. Mongabay-Indonesia will also have a weekly radio show on Green Radio FM.

Indonesia's deforestation rate falls, says Ministry of Forestry

Indonesia's deforestation rate fell from 830,000 hectares per year between 2006-2009 to 450,000 hectares per year between 2009–2011, said the Ministry of Forestry Thursday during the unveiling of its revision of a map that defines the country's moratorium on new logging and plantation concessions in primary forests and peatlands.

An investigation by the environmental activist group found traces of mixed tropical hardwood fiber (MTH) in KFC's drink cups, food boxes, napkins and chicken buckets. The fiber comes from Asia Pulp & Paper.

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While the FDA marches on with their plans to take away your right to health and nutrition, this documentary will threaten to blow their tyrannical rule apart. Never before seen footage, and never before heard evidence that will SHOCK you into action.

The event will take place at New York Society for Ethical Culture, June 15, 2012 at 7pm, with a Q&A with Gary Null, victims of the FDA's failures, and special guests at the forefront of exposing this bureaucratic monstrosity.

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Wind energy and Wind Farms – are they a solution to renewable energy -- or a scam?

Find out on today's Gary Null Show at Noon ET, with guest Dr John Etherington, author of “The Wind Farm Scam: An Ecologist’s Evaluation”

LAFITTE, La. (AP) — Gloom infects the hard-working shrimp and crab docks of thisgritty fishing town as the second full year of fishing since BP's catastrophic oil spill kicks into high gear. Usually folks are upbeat and busy in May, when shrimpers get back to work in Louisiana's rich waters. This spring, though, catches are down, docks are idle and anxiety is growing that the ill effects of the massive BP oil spill may be far from over. An Associated Press examination of catch data from last year's commercial harvest along the Gulf — the first full year of fishing since the 2010 spill — reveals merit in the fishermen's complaints. According to the analysis of figures obtained through public records requests, seafood crops hit rock bottom in the Barataria estuary, the same place where some of the thickest waves of oil washed in when a BP well exploded in the Gulf of Mexico.

This is the spectacle of known WMD developers harassing a promoter of nuclear disarmament over the particulars of its undertaking to expose its vulnerability and inability to retaliate in kind to nuclear attack. To do this means requiring it be forced to disregard the agreed terms of its undertaking to 140 nations by unilaterally varying the treaty and disabling its ability to finance independent review by cashiering/stealing its monetary deposits of payment for oil.All this over technology, fuel, and development controlled,supplied by and guaranteed by a competitor for nuclear power market share much closer at hand : Russia.Russia has so proprietary an interest as to state it regards Iranian nuclear development as its own for purposes of defence from outside aggression. That is quite obvious WMD unmentioned as a threat in common 'analysis'.

There are a few subtleties to the great euro crisis you only really pick up when you spend a bit of time on the other side of the Channel. Among them is how deeply ingrained in the German psyche is the fe...

*SCHUMANN: "Widmung" ("Dedication"), Op. 25, No. 1* You my soul, you my heart, you my joy, o you my pain, you my world in which I live, my heaven you in which I soar, o you my grave in which I have buried ...

[image: Brazil Environment Minister Izabella Teixeira, 25 May 2012. Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has vetoed parts of a controversial bill which regulates how much land farmers must preserve as fore...

[image: image] NZ reeds man Nathan Haines is already a jazz legend—especially now he’s increasingly playing more jazz and less dance music. But until recently he still didn’t feel ready to record a “re...

A Russian cargo ship loaded with weapons is en route to Syria and due to arrive at a Syrian port this weekend, Al Arabiya television said in a report that Western diplomats in New York described on Friday...

*The Masters of Destiny To The Slaves of All Ages: Sacrifice. * "With what eyes do you think Homer made his gods look down upon the destinies of men? What was at bottom the ultimate meaning of Trojan W...

*"I actually DO have a Facebook page. I didn't put it there, no-one knows who did or why. It is unvisited, like an anonymous and unattended grave, unadorned, gray and stale. But as unwanted as it is by al...

"Cosmic dust clouds dim the light of background stars. But they also reflect the light of stars nearby. Since bright stars tend to radiate strongly in the blue portion of the visible spectrum, and the int...

*"The iPhone Way of Happiness"* by Chet Raymo "Humans spend a lot of time thinking about stuff other than the activity they are currently engaged in, such as things that happened in the past, things th...

(Reuters) - Lebanon said on Friday that a group of Lebanese Shi'ites kidnapped in Syria had been freed and were safe in Turkey, but produced no sign of the hostages at the centre of a kidnap drama heighte...

Start at about 1:30 seconds. At approximately 1:58 there is a very large light flare http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMsuKDvhTd0&feature=relmfu A red glow ensues in the aftermath of the flare Hat tip: Ch...

*Looks like it was a deceptive pump and dump -- as predicted**. * "Facebook’s stock slides in 2d day of trading" by Barbara Ortutay and Pallavi Gogoi | Associated Press, May 22, 2012 NEW YORK — Faceboo...

Alex Levin This quotation is faintly anti-German, playing to the idea that Germans are naturally inclined to obedience (not something I have noted much in my dealings with real life Germans). But I do ...

The organization I work for here in Honduras took me along to a *rendición de cuentas* yesterday – loosely translated, a surrendering of accounts. It’s basically an exercise in accountability intended for...

Beijing, China (CNN) -- China criticized a "woeful" human rights record in the United States on Friday, a day after a U.S. report said Beijing's own record is getting worse, with harsh crackdowns on dissid...

Istanbul, Turkey (CNN) -- A suicide bombing in central Turkey on Friday morning left one person dead -- not including two suicide bombers killed by the blast -- and 18 people wounded, the country's prime ...

Miami (CNN) -- A 24-year-old Canadian man will probably face federal charges after allegedly rushing to the front of an American Airlines aircraft after it landed in Miami on Friday, the FBI said. Two pas...

"Stabbing victim testifies in Michigan trial" Associated Press, May 16, 2012 FLINT, Mich. - Bill Fisher pulled up his shirt in court, showing jurors the scar from his stab wound. He then pointed to a suspe...

"Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Trouble no one about his religion. Respect others in their views and demand that they respect yours. Love your life, perfect your life,...

*"Facebook Fallout: * *A Lesson in How Wall Street Really Works"* by Bill Bonner "How do you like those wimpy, whiney investors? They lose money in Facebook. Do they take their losses like men? Nope. ...

* "Borrow-As-You-Go Politics"* by Addison Wiggin "Today, let’s take a look at the “logic” of the American Empire and what you can expect in the year(s) ahead… regardless of whether a donkey or an elep...

If you watch closely, barely a day will pass when there isn't some scandal somewhere about a cardinal, bishop or priest raping a child or covering up the rape of a child by another cardinal, bishop or pr...

PA are reporting: 'Greek exit from the euro could set off a "chain reaction of uncertainty" which would result in a "grinding slowdown in economic activity" across Europe, including the UK, Deputy Prime M...

A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 31.8 km (19.8 miles), the quake hit at 18:36:15 UTC Friday 25th May 2012 The epicenter was 277 km (172 miles) ESE of...

Spain's fourth largest bank Bankia has asked for 19bn euros (£15bn) in state aid - on top of a previous injection of 4.5bn euros. In a statement, the struggling lender said it would ask Spain's bank res...

The criminal and terrorist state of Israel desperately wants to get their nice little regional war against Iran off and running. But we have seen in the last while that several roadblocks have occurred t...

Regarding my discovery that the Senate is getting older in part because incoming recent Senators have become a lot older, which as I said earlier I had found but couldn't explain, by brother has a theory: ...

Yay, it's great news for everyone here in UK. According to Anya Briggs (speaking via Skype from New York in the video below), a *Rebel Faction *of the 'Corporate War Machine' has *stepped in and nullified...

A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck off the West Coast of Northern Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 80 km (49.6 miles), the quake hit at 16:37:11 UTC Friday 25th May 2012 The epicenter was 635 km (393.7...

The perfect storm: High unemployment - people hurting Oil companies - corporate greed This leads to states and cities opening up their states to the unknown dangers of fracking because of the financial op...

Flynt Leverett, a former senior member of the National Security Council, *tells AntiWar Radio's Scott Horton* that the Obama administration didn't want to strike a deal with Iran, but to put on a show and ...

*“The Real Federal Budget Deficit For 2011:* * 5 Trillion Dollars”* by The End of the American Dream “If the U.S. government used the same accounting methods that most U.S. businesses use, the real fe...

A former Army captain felt he was “untouchable” after police failed to prosecute him for two rapes and one sexual assault, leaving him free to go on and rape his fourth victim, a court heard yesterday. B...

Last week the Iranian military chief Major General Hassan Firouzabad said that “the Iranian nation is standing for its cause and that is the full annihilation of Israel” Could he make it any plainer? I su...

This from an article in The Sun by David Cameron promising a referendum on the EU "reform treaty" 2007 the moment the EU Constitution was dreamt up by elites in Brussels, the Conservative Party’s squadron...

Nuclear weapons just don’t make sense. Walter Pincus. Washington Post [Excerpt] "The United States has a multi-billion-dollar program to upgrade its three major nuclear warheads and a more costly effort t...

I may have some breaking news from GW Sunday night. The meditations this month may have sped up the energetics required for the round up of the Cabal. I don't have a lot of details yet, and will be o...

R. v. Cole, 2012 ONCA 347 holds, in considering a procedural issue arising when an accused failed to attend trial due to oversight, that a designated counsel may enter a plea in summary conviction matters:...

Santo Domingo, May 22 (Prensa Latina) At least 60 people were hospitalized due to suspected cholera in Tamboril, a town of Santiago de los Caballeros, which required the intervention of the Ministry of Pub...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - Winds and erratic flames forced firefighters to sit on the sidelines Thursday as a massive fire that destroyed a dozen homes and several other structures in small New Mexico commu...

Staff at the secure mental health facility James Nash House have placed the building into lockdown as part of a dispute with the centre's management. The Nursing and Midwifery Federation says the action ...

AGARTALA: As many as 19 deaths, including that of six children, were reported from tribal-dominated remote villages of Longtari Valley sub-division in Tripura's Dhalai district. According to reports, vira...

*“They raised the range on the offering literally two days after the underwriters called around saying, ‘lower your numbers for the second quarter.’ Those two things don’t go together, ever.”* Hugh Evans,...

MADISON, Neb. (AP) — An ammonia leak briefly disrupted operations at a northeast Nebraska pork plant and sent 40 workers to area hospitals for evaluation. The ammonia leak developed around 8 p.m. Thursday...

I am a strong believer that ALEC "cuts and pastes" and twists around bits and pieces of Jeffersonian philosophy until they have skewed what Jefferson said to match ALEC's distorted, extremist right wing...

*"Contributions from parties with an interest in legislation are really nothing but bribes. Sure, it's legal for the most part. Sure, everyone in Washington does it. Sure it's the way the system works. It'...

One British man has died and another is missing after falling into a crocodile-infested river in India. The men, reported to be Ian Turton, from York, and Michael Easton, from west London, went missing d...

UN nuclear inspectors have found traces of uranium enriched at 27% at Iran's Fordo nuclear site. The announcement by nuclear watchdog IAEA comes a day after Iran and six world powers held talks on Tehran...

A millionaire's daughter was jailed for two years today for driving looters on a late-night crime spree at the height of last summer's riots. University-educated Laura Johnson, 20, chauffeured the group t...

*"Weekly News Wrap-Up 5.25.12"* By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com "The big meeting, this week, in Iraq concerning Iran’s nuclear program was a big bust. The meeting, once again, ended the same way the l...

[News from all over proving my point] Members of New GOP Women's Caucus Voted Against Equality for Womenhe 24 Republican Congresswomen in the U.S. House announced yesterday that they have joined to form th...

*FRIDAY, MAY 25, 2012* *Prediction—he won’t say a word:* As of Wednesday, even Mediaite had managed to notice the smaller part of the problem. Mediaite is a tabloidy media web site founded by the useless...

*This is a cross-post from my solo blog, Dart-Throwing Chimp.* A few days ago, Sean Langberg blogged about a subject that's long been a pet peeve of mine: how we classify countries when we try to talk abo...

Yesterday was going to be a great day. I saw a number on the scale that I hadn't seen in months. My husband only had a week left of school before he was out for the summer. It was going to be a great day. ...

[image: A camel stands at a dried-up sacred well near the house of herder Khishigdelger Adiya, in Mongolia's South Gobi. There's white salt where water used to flow. Camel and goat herders worry that new...

Glenn Greenwald asks: The significant increase in support for marriage equality is strong evidence that Presidents can change public opinion with advocacy, yes? To back up a bit...Nate Silver has the very...

DNA is a very effective way to identify an individual. Properly used it is almost infallible Only a few cells are needed for DNA identification, The source of a DNA sample can come from any of saliva, blo...

[image: taitungpan2] *Panorama of Taitung and its basin from Rte 197.* Over at The Diplomat in its flashpoints blog, the intrepid J Michael Cole of the Taipei Times has a piece on how the F-35 can be used ...

*FRIDAY, MAY 25, 2012* *Epilogue—The pet dog versus the workers:* What do “private equity” companies actually do? Most people couldn’t much tell you. In yesterday’s New York Times, Julie Creswell marvele...

*193 just north of Rueisuei in the Rift Valley.* Conn Hallinan has another one of his pro-China pieces appearing on various progressive websites on the net. It's a good example of how people on the left ...

[image: Smoke billows from a chimney of a heating plant as the sun sets in Beijing in this file photo dated Monday, 13 February 2012. U.N. climate talks being held in Bonn, Germany, are in gridlock on Th...

﻿ http://twitpic.com/9oq0yo https://wlfriends.org/﻿ *A decision on whether Wikileaks founder Julian Assange should be extradicted to Sweden** will be given next Wednesday (May 30, 2012), the UK Supreme ...

Neo-Imperialism by Faux-Democracy, Terrorism, and Propaganda. *guest post by Eric Draitser of StopImperialism.com, * *May 25, 2012* - At the G8 summit last week, President Obama and other officials in his...

*Okanagan Fruits submits GMO apple for approval* By CBAN Food Freedom News, May 24, 2012 The small BC Company Okanagan Specialty Fruits has just submitted their request to Health Canada and the Canadian F...

[image: An employee of Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) walks at TEPCO's Kawasaki Thermal Power Plant in Kawasaki, south of Tokyo, 22 April 2012. Toru Hanai / REUTERS] By Stephanie Nebehay and Tom M...

(Reuters) - Syrian rebels released on Friday Lebanese hostages kidnapped in northern Syria, an Islamist cleric who brokered their release said. "Thanks to God their transfer is complete..they have been ha...

Tokyo (CNN) -- Japan's largest utility said Thursday that more radiation than previously thought was released into the atmosphere in March 2011, in the days after the nuclear disaster that followed an ea...

New York (CNN) -- Thirty-three years to the day after Etan Patz disappeared, spawning nationwide attention to missing children, a suspect will finally appear in a New York courtroom to hear criminal charg...

I'd write a lengthy comment on this, but with my new administrative responsibilities, I have a full day of meetings on liberal arts assessment and impact -- oh, and some kind of silly discussion on the i...

(CNN) -- In his first in-depth TV interview since his dramatic escape from house arrest, Chinese human rights activist Chen Guangcheng told CNN about his departure from China and his continuing concern f...

Happy Birthday to Paul Weller, 54. I'm not really a fan of the rest of his career. But I certainly am a fan of The Jam. If I thought that the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame was something to care about, I'd be ...

Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- France's new president, François Hollande, reaffirmed Friday during a visit to Kabul that France will withdraw 2,000 troops from Afghanistan by the end of 2012. He spoke after...

(CNN) -- Syrian protesters spilled out into the streets after morning prayers Friday as regime forces shelled various opposition neighborhoods, activists said. Planned protests were under way in various ...

(Financial Times) -- Some of Europe's biggest fund managers have confirmed they are dumping euro assets amid rising fears over a possible Greek exit from the eurozone and single currency turmoil. The eur...

Sanaa, Yemen (CNN) -- Thirty-eight al Qaeda militants were killed in clashes with Yemen's military, local security officials said Friday. At least 15 troops also died in the violence Thursday morning in t...

Belfast, Northern Ireland (CNN) -- Audio recordings locked inside a college library in the United States might help solve a decades-old murder mystery, but the release of those tapes could damage the frag...

Shares in Spain's fourth largest bank have been suspended as the troubled lender reportedly prepares to ask the Spanish government for a 15bn euro (£12bn) bailout. The part-nationalised bank's new manage...

The Barritts of Santa Clarita are Republicans and they donate, modestly, to the GOP, though not much over $11,000 since they started giving money to Buck McKeon in 1997. William Barritt is a high-ranking ...

The captain and second officer of a ship that caused New Zealand's biggest sea pollution disaster when it ploughed into an offshore reef have both been jailed for seven months. The Filipino officers were...

Patients at the St Helens hospital in Tasmania's north east have been evacuated as the town braces for low-level flooding. Several streets and businesses are already flooded, including the hotel, a bargai...

Nasa's Solar Dynamics Observatory is an 'eye' in space focused on the sun - but its scientists have found an all-new way of looking at the star that gives our planet heat and life. Don't be deceived by th...

In the third instance this season, a black bear has gotten stuck in a tree. But this black bear, stuck some 40-feet into a tree in Steamboat Springs, needed some help to fall after wildlife authorities tr...

Molecules containing large chains of carbon and hydrogen - the building blocks of all life on Earth - are one of the main 'targets' of Man's missions to Mars, and key to understanding if life ever existed...

An HIV-positive soldier who was forced to wear a surgical mask in court to prevent him from trying to infect others was today found guilty of involvement in a plot to blow up a Texas restaurant full of so...

Nearly one third of homeowners are underwater on their mortgages and owe an average of $75,000 more than their houses are worth, according to a startling new report by the real estate research firm Zillow...

Spy sources in Moscow today made the astonishing claim that a US undercover operation may have sabotaged a new Russian Superjet plane that crashed in Indonesia two weeks ago. The aircraft was on a demons...

In the Middle East they have shoe throwing. The people of Quebec have taken up banging pots and pans in protests against state sponsored tyranny, specifically this is being done to protests the tyrannical ...

A high school football star who was once one of the most highly-sought players in the country has had a rape charge against him dismissed after his accuser admitted it had never happened. Brian Banks, 26...

Cinar Corp. v. Robinson, 2012 SCC 25 might be seen as a rather particular decision related only to Supreme Court practice but it has a suggestion of something more generally relevant. Security for cost mot...

Claims by four of Wall Street's main market makers against Nasdaq over Facebook's botched IPO are likely to exceed $100million, as they and other traders continue to deal with thousands of problems with c...

The EEOC has issued a new guidance about how the use of criminal records in making employment decisions might be illegal discrimination. Why might using criminal records result in discrimination? EEOC says...

A missing studio executive for Fox has been spotted in California with a woman, it has been claimed. Gavin Smith, 57, failed to pick his son up for school or turn up to work on May 1 and has not been hea...

A fourth victim of flesh-eating bacteria in Georgia lost his leg when doctors were forced to amputate it three weeks after he received a cut in the water. The latest outbreak of the infection has left ne...

This is the tragic moment one toddler twin is carried from their home after being drowned by their mother who also smothered the other twin, poisoned their sister and tried to take her own life. The utte...

The Conservatives have now revealed their game plan for fighting seven attempts to overturn results from last May's election. There is a conspiracy afoot, they say. In a 750 page "brief," they allege th...

West Coast beachcombers are likely to stumble across some gruesome discoveries over the next few months, as experts warn that human remains are set to reach the shore. Dozens of bones are expected to was...

A man is facing a 14-year jail sentence after he spent almost $70,000 that was put into his bank account by mistake. Joseph Bucci, from Trevose, Pennsylvania, was stunned with he discovered $69,300 in hi...

Our 2011-12 Movie Season was a strange one, as we're gravitating towards watching more series and fewer films. I also didn't have a good source for quality movies on DVD for a while. But we did see sever...

Skeletal remains found in rural Iowa in March are those of a 24-year-old mother who vanished last year after a night out with friends - but police still do not know how and why she died. Division of Crim...

A sky-diving pensioner who refused to get out of the plane was left hanging precariously from her instructor as a tandem dive went dangerously wrong. The 80-year-old desperately tried to cling onto the d...

Russia's latest weather satellite has captured the crispest-ever video of our planet - with unforgettable touches such as the sun reflecting off the sea as day turns to night. The image was taken by the ...

Astronaut Don Pettit loves sharing his holiday pictures. Which is good for the rest of the world, because few of us will ever experience the view from 240 miles up. The astronaut's latest spectacular vide...

A drunken thug who stamped repeatedly on a young woman's head aboard a crowded tram simply because she was dressed in goth-style clothes was today facing a lengthy jail term. Kenneth Kelsall, 47, battere...

A foreign surgeon who mistakenly injected a four-year-old boy with a massive overdose of a toxic chemical has been suspended. Hungarian Dr Gyorgy Rakoczy had trouble speaking English and communicating wi...

Facebook's chief operating officer joked about the company's disastrous public offering during a speech to Harvard Business School students. Sheryl Sandberg, 42, asked the class yesterday to click on the s...

London's transport system came under fire today after a major technical failure on the Underground saw hundreds stuck in stifling carriages on the hottest night of the year. More than 770 passengers have...

A woman plied a vulnerable 14-year-old schoolgirl with alcohol and cocaine before selling her to a builder for sex for £60, a court has heard. Leanne Gilder, 26, is accused of setting up the teenager to b...

A gang of thugs kidnapped a 14-year-old and told his parents they would chop his head off if they didn’t pay a £40,000 ransom, a court heard. Abdal Miah, 29, Liban Mohammed, 20, Anjam Shaffique, 30, and C...

A chuckwagon race in 1924 – then and now, unquestionably exciting and unquestionably cruel. Time for it to stop. Below: Alberta Premier Alison Redford and Prime Minister Stephen Harper, both looking fashio...

A trainee witch has admitted beheading her three-year-old nephew on the orders of a dark arts teacher in Nepal. The 25-year-old was allegedly told her skills would only be complete after sacrificing her ...

An accounts manager who left a student fighting for her life after smashing a wine glass into her neck walked free after a judge described her as a ‘decent young woman’. Pretty blonde Claire Stephens, 23...

Executives at the watchdog set up to monitor MPs’ pay and expenses are claiming £400 a day for meetings they hold over the phone, it has been claimed. Minutes of two board meetings at the Independent Par...

Spending on consultants by the cash-strapped Ministry of Defence has soared from £6million to £270million in only five years, a report reveals today. The spending marks a 45-fold rise over the period. An...

More than 60,000 criminals were spared a jail sentence last year despite having committed at least 15 previous crimes. Incredibly, the figures emerged less than 24 hours after Ken Clarke said there were t...

Cases of suicide have rocketed since Britain plunged into recession, alarming new figures reveal. Coroners courts concluded that 3,471 people had taken their own lives last year, a rise of 15 per cent co...

Under Islam, land once possessed by Islam, if subsequently lost to an invader, remains land that is holy to Islam. It is especially imperative that such lost lands be restored to the rightful rule of Islam...

The Crimson reports: For a Statistics 104 final project, a group of students asked 1,035 undergraduates to gauge their impression of Occupy on a scale of one to ten, with ten being most positive. They fou...

A thug travelled 190 miles to hand himself in to police immediately after watching footage of himself attacking an innocent man on Crimewatch. Christopher Riley, 23, punched Scott Huxtable on a Valentine'...

Immigration is at record highs despite Coalition promises to slash the number of arrivals. Figures released yesterday show that net migration in the first nine months of last year stood at 252,000 – the ...

The euro crashed to a 22-month low yesterday as the European economy took another dramatic turn for the worse. Figures showed the biggest slump in private sector business across Europe this month for near...

Bank customers should be charged a monthly fee on current accounts even if they are in credit, according to a finance industry watchdog. Charges of £15 a month could be applied, allowing a fixed number of...

The puppet interim ruler of Libya, Abdurrahim El-Keib, is in London to propagandise for his pay-masters against the country over which they installed him to rule for them. El-Keib has layed a wreath of w...

The former head of fraud and security for digital banking at Lloyds Banking Group has herself been charged with a £2.46m fraud. Jessica Harper has been accused of submitting false invoices “to claim payme...

*...and African migrants in Israel...* In recent days, two major cities starting with a "B" witnessed futile negotiations about important topics. In Bonn, the ex-capital of West Germany, some bureaucrat...

(Reuters) - Syria's U.N. ambassador complained on Thursday that his mission is unable to open a U.S. bank account due to sanctions imposed on his country because of its 14-month assault on an opposition de...

A Greek exit from the euro zone would set off a "chain reaction of uncertainty" that would be strongly felt in Britain's banking sector, British deputy prime minister Nick Clegg said. He warned that a pos...

The various Egyptian pundits assumed that public support of the Brotherhood waned after they announced their attempt to put forward a presidential nominee. With final results due to be published only next...

[image: Creative Commons License] The Adventures of Limited Eating by Casey Lazonick is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may b...

Traditional germ-laden holy water font. Photo courtesy: irishcentral.com An Irish American firefighter has eased the worries of millions of churchgoers around the world by inventing an automatic holy water...

*The One And Only Balsamic Glaze!* I have a bit of difficulty with dressing, in general it doesn't make me feel so great, so I try to avoid it. When I discovered Balsamic Glaze (A.K.A Crema di Balsamico) ...

*Mursi supporters.* The CIA will be pleased with the results so far in the presidential election in Egypt. Mohamed Mursi, reportedly with a little help from vote buying, is in the lead. *Mursi worked a...

America has withdrawn $33m in aid from Pakistan in protest at the 33-year sentence given to a Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA find Osama Bin Laden. The US Congress is holding back $1m for every year...

Seven people have been arrested, including the boy's parents, after his eyeballs were pulled out during the ritual. The incident happened in Nezahualcoyotl, a working-class neighbourhood of Mexico City....

Iran claims a recently discovered, centuries old bible will prove once and for all that Islam is the one true religion. The bible, confiscated from smugglers by Turkish authorities in 2000 is believed to...

A teenager who weighs more than 350kg had to be cut free from her home by emergency services during an eight-hour ordeal because she was too big to leave the house. Georgia Davis, 19, of Aberdare in Sout...

Rangers will use commonsense in seizing domestic felines that have been deemed to have committed an offence under Western Australia's new cat laws, Local Government Minister John Castrilli says. The Cat ...

A husband and father of six children went into hospital for a kidney stone and came out as a woman – and she doesn't mind one bit. Steve Crecelius says he felt 'validated' when a nurse reading his ultras...

A group of police in Papua New Guinea have removed road blocks they set up outside parliament house in Port Moresby. The group of about 40 policemen set up the roadblocks to both entrances of parliament ...

Anglicare is reporting a big spike in the number of Canberrans seeking emergency help to pay for rent and food. The organisation has found a 15 per cent increase in the number of people visiting this yea...

The Royal Flying Doctor Service is launching a program to provide dental services to remote communities in outback New South Wales. One of the flying dentists says the levels of tooth decay and disease in...

A 12-year-old girl allegedly lured into a child prostitution ring was scared she'd get into trouble if she didn't have sex with a 55-year-old client, a court has heard. Elia Toma, 55, appeared in Campbell...

Gale force winds are set to hit Melbourne as the city is drenched in its rainiest May day in almost two decades. Harsh winds of between 90 and 100km/h will sweep Melbourne's bay areas from St Kilda to th...

A parliamentary debate in Ukraine has descended into chaos with politicians from opposing parties throwing punches in a violent scuffle. The ministers had been discussing allowing the use of the Russian ...

jenny8lee/CC BY 2.0 In the beauty-treatment equivalent of leech therapy, fish pedicures allow spa-goers to have dead skin nibbled off their feet by Garra rufa, an inch-long toothless carp also known as “...

19 years old (when this video was made) Eric Jacqmain, from Indiana in the US, covered an ordinary fibreglass satellite dish with 5,800 tiny mirror tiles to make his 'very own death ray'. Watch this lad ...

Two Humboldt penquins - not Inca and Rayas. Photo courtesy: Wikipedia Here's a wonderful story about love. Love is beautiful no matter where it is found; and, every love should be given the support to deve...

Further to this blogpost I have written to AQA to ask them the question that I ended my original piece with. 'why do some people hate Jews?' Nota Sheep 07:17 to: mailbox@aqa.org.uk I understand that th...

Source of the picture: http://preventdisease.com/news/12/052312_Record-Numbers-of-Pregnant-Women-Are-Refusing-The-Flu-Shot.shtml Record Numbers of Pregnant Women Are Refusing The Flu Shot According To Pr...

*According to the study, carbon present in 10 meteorites, spanning more than four billion years of Martian history, came from the earth and was not the effect of contamination on Earth.* Molecules contai...

This is just a simple link with a comment. The BaBar collaboration located at SLAC just published a preprint Evidence for an excess of \(B \to D({}^*) \tau \nu\) decays in which it announced the measureme...

A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 55.3 km (34.4 miles), the quake hit at 03:59:29 UTC Friday 25th May 2012 The epicenter was 88 km (55 miles) Northea...

China's Huawei has filed an opposition complaint against US firm Inter Digital with European commission. Huawei filed a complaint with the European Commission after weakening to attain a contract with th...

The names and addresses of 60 Iranian experts employed by 11 different Iranian agencies under the control of the Iranian Defense Ministry were revealed Saturday, May 12, by the main Iranian opposition Muj...

New cascades of centrifuges are being installed at Iran’s Fordo nuclear underground facility raising the total to 3,000 machines. All the 800 machines operating at present are devoted to the 20-percent re...

U.S. plans for a possible military strike on Iran are ready and the option is "fully available", the U.S. ambassador to Israel said, days before Tehran resumes talks with world powers which suspect it of s...

With Washington sowing its discredited brand of democracy worldwide, tensions are rising within the US between the descendants of the white settlers on the one side and Blacks, Hispanics, Asians, and unwel...

South Korea's president won a promise from Myanmar to refrain from military cooperation with nuclear-armed North Korea during a two-day trip that included a meeting with opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi...

It was Feb. 25, 1991. The sun was yet to rise on the second day of the Gulf War's ground offensive. Just before daybreak, there was a surprise encounter between one U.S. Marine tank company and three Iraq...

Israel's accelerating drive to build up its German-built submarine fleet, already the most powerful in the Middle East, is going to cost $1.8 billion for three state-of-the-art Dolphin class boats being b...

Milk poured down Britain's kitchen sinks each year creates a carbon footprint equivalent to thousands of car exhaust emissions, research shows. Scientists say the 360,000 tonnes of milk wasted in the UK e...

I'm sure that somewhere, in a university or institute, researchers have produced an analysis that measures the rise in the number of armed conflicts as a ratio of the increase in economic instability as c...

A typical technology of deception is to tell the truth, but not the whole truth. The coverage of the recent catastrophes at Japan's Fukushima 1 and Fukushima 2 nuclear power plants seems to be built on th...

The NATO summit which will convene in Lisbon on November 19-20 will adopt the alliance's new strategic concept switching NATO from regional defense to global-scale missions. In practice, the reform will i...

The world economic depression is a dire threat to the national security of the United States. To date, little or nothing has been done to address the causes of the depression and rebuild the economy. Wi...

*Please meet my newest bloggy friends, Chelsea and Danielle. I invited Chelsea and Danielle over to talk a bit about their mission (and passion). I think you'll find it very interesting.* *Balloons Blow…D...

PDA is going to be registering people to vote and talking with them about progressive solutions to American challenges at Crosby Stills and Nash concerts across America starting next month. And they'll b...

Know that space rock that wreaked havoc on the world in the 1998 action movie Armageddon? Well, that might have been fiction--but a new NASA study identifies about 4,700 “potentially hazardous” asteroids ...

While pregnant with her son Edgar, Melissa Wolfe followed the lead of many a cautious woman before her. She took prenatal vitamins and ate organic vegetables. She avoided dyeing her hair and using hairspr...

Does 'progressive leadership' or something more complex and sinister explain why Algeria's 'Spring' never materialised? The 'Arab Spring' of 2011 brought down autocratic governments across North Africa ...

Cambridge, MA - The Occupy movement has been an extremely exciting development. Unprecedented, in fact. There's never been anything like it that I can think of. If the bonds and associations it has establ...

Unless Mladic's legacy is addressed in the rest of Bosnia, the outcome of his trial in The Hague may be merely symbolic. New York, New York - On May 12, 1992, Radovan Karadzic, president of the self-procl...

The United States' standing as "mediator" of international protests is a major obstacle for OWS to have to overcome. Cambridge, United Kingdom - Where a state stands on the international scale impacts the...

From gas-mileage standards to tax breaks for windmills, public support for "green" energy measures to tackle global warming has dropped significantly in the past two years, particularly among Republicans,...

As far back as records go (1895), never has the U.S. strung together 12 straight months warmer than May 2011 to April 2012 according to new data released today by NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center (NCD...

Industry giants say their case is misguided. But that isn't stopping a group of high school students from using the legal system to make environmental demands. Alec Loorz turns 18 at the end of this mon...

GLOBAL warming isn’t a prediction. It is happening. That is why I was so troubled to read a recent interview with President Obama in Rolling Stone in which he said that Canada would exploit the oil in its...

The vast swirl of plastic waste floating in the North Pacific has grown 100-fold over the last 40 years, according to a research paper published on Wednesday. US scientists warned the killer soup of micr...

As the battle wages on over the safety of feeding antibiotics to livestock for growth promotion, a new report reveals yet another source of unregulated antibiotics in American animal feed--spent ethanol gr...

The microscopic organisms on which almost all life in the oceans depends could be even more vulnerable to increasingly acidic waters than scientists realised, according to a new study. Previous experimen...

Kay Allen had just started work, and everything seemed quiet at the Cornerstone Care community health clinic in Burgettstown, Pa. But things didn't stay quiet for long. "All the girls, they were yelling a...

Last year at this time, all eyes were on Texas, where drought conditions were intensifying into what became that state’s worst single year drought on record, causing nearly $8 billion in economic losses. ...

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